Originally Posted by
abc
I agree, no reason to start over. Keep doing what your doing, at this point just don't hit the smooth all button or don't highlight large portions of your VE table and hit the smooth button. When your as close as you say your are, I like to apply the changes from the LTFT by 1/2% like you are, then look at the shape of the VE table, if the changes created any massive holes or mountains in the table, I will grab each cell one at a time and drag it smooth just by a small percentage if the data supports it, then go retest. Often times I will even open the VE table and VE graph side by side on the screen, make changes by percentage in individual cells and watch the VE graph change in real time. Based on the scaling of the VE numbers, sometimes making it pleasing to the eye is less than a 1 percent change in a cell or two. The engine may never even notice the change but in the scale we are looking at the VE graph it will look much prettier. I'm gonna guess at this point you have heard that the VE graph should resemble the shape of a plotted dyno graph of your engine, if your dyno graph was presented to you in a two dimensional format. With that said, your engine does not build VE in a perfectly smooth straight line as it accelerates, there will be peaks and valleys, yet it is unrealistic to think the engine would drop or gain 10% or more VE from one cell to the next in any one direction when your dealing with 400 rpm increments and 5 kpa changes.
The last version of the VE table does look more normal. I'm sure your noticing the difference between the cells your working on and the ones you just smoothed all above about the 5200 rpm line. Do to the fact that most of us are hobbyists, we don't have the experience of hundreds of "start from the beginning tunes" and don't take the time to get a lot of the math channels/formulas working in our favor to speed the process up.